The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Bridge Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Bridge
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Bridge An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Bridge
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Bridge If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Bridge
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Bridge There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Bridge
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Bridge "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Bridge
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Bridge One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Bridge
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bridge "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Bridge
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Bridge Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Bridge
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Bridge "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Bridge
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Bridge The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Bridge
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Bridge I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Bridge
